In 1993, a prospector named Michael de Guzman walked out of the jungles of Borneo with extraordinary news: he found gold.

This is according to MasterMinds, a Canadian true crime documentary television series produced by truTV.

For the next three years, de Guzman produced thousands of core samples riddled with gold. Canada's CBC News has a detailed timeline of the events.

During that period, the market value of de Guzman's employer, Bre-X Minerals, went from nothing to $6 billion. BusinessWeek notes that Wall Street's top analysts were extremely bullish on the stock. Big funds poured money into the stock and the world's major miners wrestled for a piece of the action.